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9/17/2004

Write a Worm, Get a Job

Filed under: — dan @ 4:31 pm

Damn, don’t even have to go to jail in the meantime. So, lemme get this straight, cause tons of havoc around the world, piss off the IT departments, and generally be a nuisance, and you get REWARDED? Nice system they got going, them security firms…
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A German teenager accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world is being taught to become a security software programmer, the company that hired him said.

Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan has been taken on by the Securepoint computer firm based in Lueneburg, northern Germany and is being trained to make firewalls, which stop suspect files from entering computer systems.

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